Posted on 08/31/2013 11:42:50 AM PDT by jazusamo
One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough qualified buyers.
The repercussions did not stop there. Many homeowners have discovered that when renters replace homeowners as their neighbors, the neighborhood as a whole can suffer.
The physical upkeep of the neighborhood, on which everyone's home values depend, tends to decline. "Who's going to paint the outside of a rented house?" one resident was quoted as saying in a recent New York Times story.
Renters also tend to be of a lower socioeconomic level than homeowners. They are also less likely to join neighborhood groups, including neighborhood watches to keep an eye out for crime. In some cases, renters have introduced unsavory or illegal activities into family-oriented communities of homeowners that had not had such activities before.
None of this should be surprising. Individuals and groups of all sorts have always differed from one another in many ways, throughout centuries of history and in countries around the world. Left to themselves, people tend to sort themselves out into communities of like-minded neighbors.
This has been so obvious that only the intelligentsia could misconstrue it — and only ideologues could devote themselves to crusading against people's efforts to live and associate with other people who share their values and habits.
Quite aside from the question of whose values and habits may be better is the question of the effects of people living cheek by jowl with other people who put very different values on noise, politeness, education and other things that make for good or bad relations between neighbors. People with children to protect...
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Anecdotal evidence is that if you get too many Section8 people in an aarea, that decent people start moving out, and the neighborhood goes ghetto.
All this ideological self-indulgence and cynical political activity is washed down with lofty rhetoric about "compassion," "inclusion" and the like.
No lie quite like a high-sounding lie.
Tempest meet teapot.
Hubris on both sides here.
These print-only versions are convenient to readers, but to advertisers Sowell looks like a nobody in terms of hits on their advertisements.
Renters are a cancer on the neighborhood.
I link it for our readers and I doubt anyone looks at Sowell as a nobody:)
What two sides? Renters and non-renters?
This is the key.
Republicans need to do more than just resist progressives' efforts. They need to force them and their supporters to financially support and live with the results of their ideology.
I guess when he goes to the supermarket they just hand him free food because they know he's somebody.
Actually, government subsidized renters are a virulent cancer.
We rented for many years and were not a “cancer”. Of course, we didn’t have slumlord landlords, either.
And I especially appreciate it so I can spread the page around to everyone I know...Sowell in his gifted and unique way speaks to many.
And how would they do that?
“Renters are a cancer on the neighborhood.”
I don’t rent (I did years ago when first married), but get used to renters because as American-Americans stop breeding there is no reason for them to buy a home. In fact, in a global economy I must say buying a home was the worst mistake I made. I bought it cheap, and have kept current on the mortgage, but if I lose my job we’re screwed. The only jobs left (and there are few) are McJobs, so I’d lose the house waiting for a buyer that would never materialize - who buys homes in dying states?
While section 8 renters are horrid, others are just people keeping their mobility. Here in NJ, losing them has cost us dearly (but they went where their jobs led them).
Thanks for that jaz. Yes he’s right on the mark again. The so called do gooders of the Left trying to make the World their way. There IS a World Order created by the one, and the only.
All they can accomplish fooling around with God’s plan is unintended consequences.
All the better to have the neighbor kill neighbor Rwanda Scenario when things finally collapse.
What do you mean? You’re for more forced subsidized housing in wealthier neighborhoods/
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